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The World's Best Self Funded FIlms

Love Bondi Story

Love Bondi Story

This is no ordinary love story. Quique fell in love with a girl on a bus bound for Tapiales but dared not speak and now looking for the girl.

By Julio Caloggero

Seven Kilometres

Seven Kilometres

Oliver and Audrey are out on a date. Their destination holds a romantic inclination that will eventually unfold on this very special night.

By Dean Marando

Ecuador, con los ojos cerrados

Ecuador, con los ojos cerrados

Ecuador is a country full of changes that fights for develop itself. Manos Unidas is helping in that way. A poetry guide us to discover it, with the eyes closed.

By Daniel S�nchez Chamorro

My kith and kin (Moja rodnja)

My kith and kin (Moja rodnja)

Lolita is the one who bears two cultures, as her mother is Russian and her father is Azerbaijanian. This is a lyric and breathe taking story about a girl, who goes to Azerbaijan for the very first time to meet her father�s parents. She wants to know ...

By Rodion Ismailov

Old Traditions

This crime anthology chronicles the assassinations carried out by a ritualistic hit man. He is known only as The Milkman.

By Anthony Risling

Crossing Moments

Crossing Moments

Where the present, past and future seamlessly blend to create uncertainty in Roberta ,Cristina Restrepo, who after 10 years of having immigrated to the United States is now being deported to her country of origin, Mexico. This means leaving beh ...

By Daniel Urdanivia

Al Awda

The main character the film suffers of loneliness and sadness after losing the one she loved also she feels helplessness and oppression so that decides to go back

By Neveen Shalaby

A documentary that captures the degradation of once a beautiful relationship between grandmother and her grandson told through the dehumanizing environment of a Croatian government pensioners home. What happens to a person when it loses its function?

By Dario Bukovski

Blind Puppet (Marioneta Ciega)

Blind Puppet (Marioneta Ciega)

In this twisted tale, a depressed and often manic puppeteer leaves home to do another day of penance, trying to absolve the tortured memories of a drunken night � when the monster that dwells within him was unleashed. Blind Puppet� This is my peniten ...

By Jaime Fidalgo

LUDWIG'S TAPE

The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein and his love for cinema, scotchtape, sex and vegetables.

By Claudia Siefen

A Fairy Tale

Tanya is babysitting Amanda while reading her a fairy tale that will end up scaring them to death.

By Vadir Sottelo

Animal Park

Since 1996 DRCongo has been in a permanent state of warfare. On the eastern border of the country lies the oldest park of the African continent, the Virunga National Park. The main priority of the park's management is the protection of nature and, ...

By francesco picciolo

Our Sky, Our Land

Our Sky, Our Land

Iraq, February 1988. Saddam Hussein�s regime justifies as a Holy war against the infidels the looting and the systematic extermination of the Kurdish people. From this date onwards, forced deportations, random executions and communal graves become th ...

By francesco picciolo

Felinheli; Hefin and Als

Felinheli; Hefin and Als

Incidents observed but, without lengthy narrative. Collectively, the moving images are a tribute to a depth of subject and are an expression of feeling, which I hope depict an equivalent freedom and wreckles abandon. This film is a documentary animat ...

By chris daykin

Drugged Out Sexed Up

Drugged Out Sexed Up

A tel Avivian stoner wants to make a film but gets mixed up with the wrong girl and a new drug of choice

Weekend With Cristine

Weekend With Cristine

A retelling from the old advertisements on TV and the soap-operas from the 50's. A anguishing weekend to a man closed in Cristine's apartment. The whole story is narrated through the eyes of this tied man, while he is observing Cristine. Between both ...

My Sweet Nurse

The fable without dialogues mixes magical realism and horror showing the daily life of a nurse and her only patient, in an old and hidden hospital in a remote time. Years go by fast, while the two characters remain as if they were frozen in hanged mi ...

The documentary portrays the life and history of Mexican wrestlers who for various reasons have decided to participate in this contact sport characterizing exotic characters. The exotic refers to the strange, the mysterious, the weird, the unusual. P ...

By Michael Ramos-Araizaga

Just in time

"A young and eccentric inventor decides to travel back in time to reach the girl he loves."

By Iacopo Navari

Irene is eight and she just woke up from a nightmare.

By JAVI NAVARRO

Kar Bhalaa (Do Good)

Kar Bhalaa (Do Good)

About 'Kar Bhalaa' ('Do Good') This bilingual (Hindi-Tamil) student short film 'Kar Bhalaa' written and directed by Biswanath Rath is based on a true story in Chennai. Meaning of �Kar Bhalaa� in English is �Do Good�. Kar Bhalaa - Synopsis Ab ...

By Biswanath Rath

My Baby (My Baby)

My Baby (My Baby)

Security guard Iulia, interior decorator Andi and English language teacher Ana are bound by a series of decisions that could change their lives forever. Each of them depends on the others' actions. Each one of them gets to care for and needs to be ta ...

Gematria

Gematria is a short film that uses allegory to question the validity of definite truths. The future is a bleak dystopia, ruled by multinational conglomerates and corporations. Having taken over governments, they have redefined the system. Using tec ...

By Yilmaz Vurucu

Bless Me

A hip, non-religious young woman has an unusual experience during her first Catholic confession.

By Christian LaMorte

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Building bridges based on the
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Cine Pobre is the 100%
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NOTABLES
The Last Photo
The Model
Fourteen Days
La Descorrupcion
Yomigaeru To Live Again
Veni Etiam
The Servant
Young Syrian Lenses
Brazil is Not Copacabana
Forest of Copper Columns
About Killing The Pig
The Caramel Corn Riot
Fiona Humphrey: A Family Album

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